{"id":841909,"date":"2025-04-18T20:11:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T01:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/watch-why-insurance-companies-are-denying-coverage-for-prosthetic-limbs\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T20:11:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T01:11:52","slug":"watch-why-insurance-companies-are-denying-coverage-for-prosthetic-limbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/watch-why-insurance-companies-are-denying-coverage-for-prosthetic-limbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Why Insurance Companies Are Denying Coverage for Prosthetic Limbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business <\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why insurance companies are denying coverage for prosthetic limbs\" width=\"570\" height=\"321\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q93Awpb4jEs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/why-insurance-companies-are-denying-coverage-for-prosthetic-limbs\">PBS News Weekend<\/a>\u2019s Ali Rogin spoke with KFF Health News contributor Michelle Andrews about what some people with missing limbs consider a disparity in health insurance coverage: Though a knee replacement likely would be covered, a prosthetic knee isn\u2019t always. A prosthetic device can be subject to cost caps and an amputee may be required to prove medical necessity for coverage. Andrews recently explored these issues in her article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/prosthetic-limbs-private-insurance-coverage-denials-amputees\/\">Health Insurers Limit Coverage of Prosthetic Limbs, Questioning Their Medical Necessity<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>\n\t\t\t\tRelated Topics\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/topics\/health-care-costs\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHealth Care Costs\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/topics\/insurance\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tInsurance\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/topics\/multimedia\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMultimedia\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/tag\/disabilities\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDisabilities\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/tag\/video\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVideo\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/contact-us\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tContact Us\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/tips\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tSubmit a Story Tip\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/watch-why-insurance-companies-are-denying-coverage-for-prosthetic-limbs\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Michelle Andrews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBS News Weekend\u2019s Ali Rogin spoke with KFF Health News contributor Michelle Andrews about what some people with missing limbs consider a disparity in health insurance coverage: Though a knee replacement likely would be covered, a prosthetic knee isn\u2019t always. A prosthetic device can be subject to cost caps and an amputee may be required<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":841910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35067,392,451],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-841909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-heath","8":"category-insurance","9":"category-watch"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}